UPlay trolling

[Celladar]

for some reason it requires you to have "Uplay" to play assassin's creed and i literally wrestled for hours to reset my password that i apparently had and this Uplay saying that i have to go online because i have not gone online once with this PC and steam is saying Assassin's creed doesn't do online or multiplayer features anymore.

so my question is, WT/F am i supposed to do to that?
I paid my money to play this game but i can't even play it without having to go thru all these quests that Ubisoft gives me? i'd say i'm not worthy of yall's game and you guys better find a better way for people to play your game instead of having to deal with the stu/pid as/s sh/it that you guys setted up before you guys get sh/et on again

[Devsman]

Ubisoft is literally a bunch of crooks.

[Basan™]

Although Assassin's Creed II (AC II) was initially bundled with Ubi$oft's former launcher/store, which was UPlay, their current application/program for such is Ubi$oft Connect[ubisoftconnect.com]. Simply uninstall UPlay, install the one that I've linked above and you should be set to go (if you already have an Ubi$oft account[www.ubisoft.com] created, ofc).

And another thing that you must be aware is that acquiring really old Ubi$oft games by today's age in comparison, most of the times that will mean that they've already got Ubi$oft's game dedicated servers shut down for a while now[www.ubisoft.com] and thus to be able to play with some of their extra content and/or DLC's, you'll need to find saves previously made to that point and if not mistaken a few of those might be stored upon the Nexus Mods site[www.nexusmods.com] (if, quite obviously, looking for AC II).

Publicado originalmente por Devsman:

Ubisoft is literally a bunch of crooks.

Although not entirelly disagreeing with your PoV (point of view) here, it really doesn't help solving this player's issue. Let's try and also bring something constructive towards the community the nexrt time, shall we? Much obliged.

[Devsman]

Publicado originalmente por Basan™:

Publicado originalmente por Devsman:

Ubisoft is literally a bunch of crooks.

Although not entirelly disagreeing with your PoV (point of view) here, it really doesn't help solving this player's issue. Let's try and also bring something constructive towards the community the nexrt time, shall we? Much obliged.

My mistake. I was assuming there was no solution.

What I said was still true, but I could have at least waited to see if anyone else had a legit solution first.

[Basan™]

Regarding old AC's games there's pretty much always a workaround solution. And that's mostly because most of those back then didn't used Ubi$oft's game dedicated servers to store saves and game's progression. And that's one of the reasons for that always having to log in into Ubi$oft Connect for those game's that I've either linked above or those that they now consider to be "Legacy Titles"[www.ubisoft.com] and, quite sadly, pretty much telling you to not expect decent support for those titles.

And the reason is that they can't do much more to prevent people from using other methods to play "DLC" related material. For example, I've tried the AC: B's Copernicus[assassinscreed.fandom.com] DLC upon PC quite a few years later after because it was initially released as consoles only DLC. And it was their loss, mind you, because they've decided not to release it into PC's back when I've bought my AC:B CD-DVD. And in no way I'm acquiring that DLC for PC in 2017 after seeing their latest in-game's monetization practices as I'm about to detail below.
If you're already paying for a AAA quality game prices and still having to deal with Ubi$oft's ever growing in-game monetization practices borderlining the "pay to progress" like it blatantly occurs upon AC: Oddyssey, that's why they've pretty much lost me as a fidelized client in these latest years because I'm still noticing that trend isn't anywhere near to slow down or get back into the old gaming industry's self-sustained development method that they used to have, which also inherently implied games to have a way higher quality standard than they currently have (i.e., most games aren't any longer "a labor of love" from their developers and thus they've become bland products pretty much as if you're acquiring hair blower in which they tell you to pimp it by having golden stripes into one of their models).

[MrHustler]

Uplay was renamed to Ubisoft Connect you need Ubisoft Connect to play any Ubisoft Game even if you have it on Steam!

[Irwin Blooster]

But how do I install Ubisoft Connect on SteamDeck?
The game is marked "Playable", but I can't pass the Uplay screen.

[Basan™]

Publicado originalmente por Irwin Blooster:

But how do I install Ubisoft Connect on SteamDeck?
The game is marked "Playable", but I can't pass the Uplay screen.

The actual benefits of previously reading by searching and/or researching just before spam bump another topic with this sore excuse for thread hi-jacking attempt.

[Exodus]

Its beyond stupid because last time i installed the game the launcher it downloaded was the ubiconnect one, why make such a dumb mistake unless ur, well, a crook?

[sotaponi]

I had the same problem after formatting my computer, even changed the system locale and everything. Which was strange, because it worked beforehand. But then odds are I installed a newer title before AC2 on my last windows install, which then downloaded ubisoft connect instead.

It's really strange how ubisoft can't even put up a notice in their old launcher or w/e. The same way they don't allow you to remove the horrible padding DLCs. Not that I care that much about these games, but yeah...

[His Majestic Dudeness]

Publicado originalmente por Basan™:

Although Assassin's Creed II (AC II) was initially bundled with Ubi$oft's former launcher/store, which was UPlay, their current application/program for such is Ubi$oft Connect[ubisoftconnect.com]. Simply uninstall UPlay, install the one that I've linked above and you should be set to go (if you already have an Ubi$oft account[www.ubisoft.com] created, ofc).

And another thing that you must be aware is that acquiring really old Ubi$oft games by today's age in comparison, most of the times that will mean that they've already got Ubi$oft's game dedicated servers shut down for a while now[www.ubisoft.com] and thus to be able to play with some of their extra content and/or DLC's, you'll need to find saves previously made to that point and if not mistaken a few of those might be stored upon the Nexus Mods site[www.nexusmods.com] (if, quite obviously, looking for AC II).

Publicado originalmente por Devsman:

Ubisoft is literally a bunch of crooks.

Although not entirelly disagreeing with your PoV (point of view) here, it really doesn't help solving this player's issue. Let's try and also bring something constructive towards the community the nexrt time, shall we? Much obliged.

my man, I love you so much

[RealCraigS]

Publicado originalmente por Basan™:

Although Assassin's Creed II (AC II) was initially bundled with Ubi$oft's former launcher/store, which was UPlay, their current application/program for such is Ubi$oft Connect[ubisoftconnect.com]. Simply uninstall UPlay, install the one that I've linked above and you should be set to go (if you already have an Ubi$oft account[www.ubisoft.com] created, ofc).

And another thing that you must be aware is that acquiring really old Ubi$oft games by today's age in comparison, most of the times that will mean that they've already got Ubi$oft's game dedicated servers shut down for a while now[www.ubisoft.com] and thus to be able to play with some of their extra content and/or DLC's, you'll need to find saves previously made to that point and if not mistaken a few of those might be stored upon the Nexus Mods site[www.nexusmods.com] (if, quite obviously, looking for AC II).

Publicado originalmente por Devsman:

Ubisoft is literally a bunch of crooks.

Although not entirelly disagreeing with your PoV (point of view) here, it really doesn't help solving this player's issue. Let's try and also bring something constructive towards the community the nexrt time, shall we? Much obliged.

Your solution though quite informative will NOT work for Linux users. IMHO the problem most players are experiencing is primarily as a result of Steam developers failure to package specific titles with the correct launcher. Notably Assassins Creed Black Flag which is an older title is packaged with the correct installer Uplay Connect whilst Assassins Creed Origins a much later titled is packaged with Uplay. My suggestion is until players start refunding and avoiding these titles like the plague will Steam devs make the necessary changes to the packages. Either that or simply migrate to Windows OS and download a cracked version of the game for free. Less of a headache and you won't cost you a cent.

[Basan™]

@RealCraigS: Then I suggest you to try the Proton OS (Operating System) because I've read a few times already that it was a way to circumvent the current Steam's User Interface (UI) not properly dealing with Linux based OS', which apart being more of a resource hog than the previous one (that I'm still managing to have fully operational), still has quite a few bug underlying around (like still not 100% reliable "Back button" since their 11th September news announcement).

Imho, you should address Steam Support regarding this matter because if it wasn't broken then why forking fiddle with it into a worst verision? It still defies my 101 logic, so...

[BigCrispy68And1]

I spent many hours trying to install Ubisoft Connect on the steam deck. And when I finally did install it I tried to launch AC2 through the Ubisoft launcher and the game still try's to connect through uplay. idk what I'm doing wrong

[Roku404]

Publicado originalmente por MrHustler:

Uplay was renamed to Ubisoft Connect you need Ubisoft Connect to play any Ubisoft Game even if you have it on Steam!

Thank Bro for solving my problem